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December 2014

An exhilarated crowd gathered on the tarmac of the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, waving American flags and signs that read “Welcome Home” on Friday, their eyes fixed on the jet taxing up the runway.

Last evening on KTVQ, they announced they had traveled to Livingston to give $500 to band instructor Garrett Stannard for having the first marching band at Park High School in 25 years.

Congratulations and well done. He accepted the money and thanked whoever nominated him, the students and the parents. We are so lucky to have an outstanding music department in both the Sleeping Giant Middle School and the high school.

I write this in response to John Usher’s letter to The Enterprise published on Dec. 3 under the heading “Politically correct crowd tries to shout down others’ opinions.” There were many points in Mr. Usher’s letter with which I disagree. Instead of adding more vitriol to the discussion, I have decided that the best use of my time is to simply voice my opinion on the issue.

The Livingston City Commission decided Tuesday night to seek community impact studies from a proposed truck stop east of town.

During a regularly scheduled commission meeting, City Manager Ed Meece said the commission directed him to initiate economic, environmental and infrastructure impact studies of the possible development at the east interchange.

Three tech-savvy Park High School seniors are helping the local Food Pantry save nearly $5,000 on its new building.

Students Rudy Nelson, Andy Villalobos and Gus Bornemann are working after school this week installing the computer and phone wiring in the new Livingston Food Pantry of Park County facility under construction — and nearly complete — at 202 S. Second St.

The Livingston City Commission took action Tuesday night to investigate possible environmental impacts from more frequent coal trains passing through the city.

The commission directed City Manager Ed Meece to send a request to the federal Surface Transportation Board to consider Livingston in an environmental impact statement related to the proposed Tongue River Railroad and Otter Creek Mine.